Re: Postgres perl module namespace

Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>

From: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>

To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>

Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2021-09-08T14:15:24Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> On Sep 7, 2021, at 9:00 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> 
> I wondered about using PGXS:: as the namespace for all these modules

That immediately suggests perl modules wrapping C code, which is misleading for these.  See `man perlxstut`

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Mark Dilger
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Fix PostgreSQL::Test aliasing for Perl v5.10.1.
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For PostgreSQL::Test compatibility, alias entire package symbol tables.
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Make PostgresNode easily subclassable
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